icmp_error() fails to clear "fragmented" flag

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Sun Mar 30 17:49:09 UTC 2014


Hi!

Suppose, you have FreeBSD host A behind FreeBSD router R and run
"traceroute -I outerhost 1501" command from A. You will see only "stars"
for first hop. That's because router R erroneously sends ICMP "time exceeded" packets
with "more fragments" flag in the IP header when original packet was fragmented.
This flag is copied from original header.

I've just tested the following patch, it fixes the problem:
http://www.grosbein.net/freebsd/patches/ip_icmp.c.diff

--- sys/netinet/ip_icmp.c.orig	2013-10-21 21:07:06.000000000 +0700
+++ sys/netinet/ip_icmp.c	2014-03-31 00:06:48.000000000 +0700
@@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ stdreply:	icmpelen = max(8, min(V_icmp_q
 	 * reply should bypass as well.
 	 */
 	m->m_flags |= n->m_flags & M_SKIP_FIREWALL;
+	m->m_flags &= ~(M_FRAG | M_FIRSTFRAG | M_LASTFRAG);
 	m->m_data -= sizeof(struct ip);
 	m->m_len += sizeof(struct ip);
 	m->m_pkthdr.len = m->m_len;
@@ -343,6 +344,7 @@ stdreply:	icmpelen = max(8, min(V_icmp_q
 	nip->ip_hl = 5;
 	nip->ip_p = IPPROTO_ICMP;
 	nip->ip_tos = 0;
+	nip->ip_off = 0;
 	icmp_reflect(m);
 
 freeit:


(I've discovered this while debugging real-world issue concerning
problems with UDP fragmented traffic while using L2TP tunnel.)

Please review/commit.

Eugene Grosbein


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